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Re:Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable... by jedberg on Monday April 13, 2020 @12:48PM (#22857445)
> I'm just waiting for the day they can make the database immutable. It'll probably look something like git.

Netflix had immutable databases back in 2012. I mean, as close as you can get I suppose. We could lose 1/3 of the nodes and keep running normally, and lose 2/3 and keep reading.

It was built with Cassandra and based on the Dynamo model.

There was also an open source, fully in memory database with the same reliability: https://github.com/Netflix/dynomite

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Re:Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable... by seb314 on Monday April 13, 2020 @01:59PM (#22858199)
you seem to imply that it is no longer like this? If so, why?
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Re:Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable... by jedberg on Monday April 13, 2020 @02:04PM (#22858252)
Oh no I'm saying it was like that then when I was there, and I can't speak to how it is now.

I assume it is still that way, because it would be odd otherwise. But I just can't say for certain because I'm not there anymore.

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